Imagine a world without internet, email, streaming services or social media. Imagine having to write letters or call everyone ...

Fiber-optic services are becoming more popular, and networks are expanding to cover more areas for faster data transfer speeds. Fiber-optic data transfer differs from traditional methods like ...

The circuit in Figure 1 allows you to verify fiber-optic strands, especially in cases in which a link goes through several patch panels. It uses two high-intensity LEDs that you can see at the far end ...

Fiber-optic fabric makes Daniel Buren’s well-known stripes luminescent. In the late 1960s, strange markings started appearing on walls and gates of Paris, a city in the midst of violent upheaval. The ...

Imagine a home with cheerful splashes of natural sunlight in every room at once — even the interior ones — all day long. Now imagine a world in which all citizens have access to the very best medical ...

The problem with cutting the pay-TV cord is that you still need a high-speed Internet connection. No surprise, then, that the big telecom companies are jacking up fees for broadband access. But I have ...

Future optical computers that use light instead of electricity will need nano-scale pipes to transfer photons—analogues to the individual transistor’s in a traditional circuit. And for that, ...